I was selfhosting a lemmy instance just for myself, to be able to connect and post to other instances. I had no communities or users. I ended up shutting it down because at the end of the day, I just don’t want stuff like CSAM making its way onto my home server because someone with ill intent bombarded a server I’m federated with. I still believe in the fediverse and lemmy in general, and no, I don’t think I’m going to get raided and arrested. But the fear just outweighed the pleasure I got from my little selfhosting project. I’m happy that other instances are up and running, and that I can post from them. I’ll also be excited to redeploy a personal server in the future when I feel that development has progressed enough that the risk to myself is low enough to still find pleasure in the project.
San José was my home growing up, thank you for the beautiful nostalgic moment :)